On Thursday the 27th of September 2018, I was asked to join the Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia (SERA) at their biennial conference dinner and awards ceremony in Brisbane.After a series of other National Awards were announced, it was down to the last category -...
A series of recent grant funding announcements are providing NGT with a welcome boost to our wetland restoration activities in western Victoria! Firstly, the Australian Government has now confirmed the recipients of 'National Landcare Program – Environment Small Grants' around the country - you can see the...
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure and privilege of being invited by the Glenelg Hopkins CMA and the Nelson Coast Care Group, to speak on behalf of the local community at the public celebration for the recent listing of the Glenelg Estuary and...
Back in April, we completed another round of fish monitoring in Long Swamp and the lower Glenelg River. Following the next round of monitoring in spring this year, we will have five years of seasonal data for the system, which is quite rare for ecological...
Next up in this series (note: you can see Part 1 here) of short 2-page papers I wrote-up after presenting at the Restore, Regenerate, Revegetate (RRR) Conference in Armidale last year, is a story describing how NGT worked with a wide range of people to progress two proposed restoration projects...
In the previous blog of this series (Part 6), we finally uncovered how the Lang Brothers wanted their run named in 1848. As we explored in Part 4, Gideon Lang paid more attention to the language and activities of the Indigenous people he encountered than many...
Thanks to the tremendous support of so many wonderful people and organisations with an interest in Long Swamp (Discovery Bay Coastal Park) over the past six years, we've now reached the stage where we can finally share everything we have learned about the site. Although...
In the most recent update to this story (Part 5), we explored some recently uncovered 1970s correspondence in the archives between the Victorian Place Names Committee (PNC) and regionally-based local and state government bodies, that shed some light on how the lake became officially registered by the...
Three years ago, we took a closer look at the long and complex dispute surrounding the name for this remote but beautiful permanent freshwater lake at the eastern end of Long Swamp, in Discovery Bay Coastal Park. You can revisit that earlier story by following...
We're currently busy putting the final touches on an evaluation report that summarises everything we've learned about Long Swamp since NGT first became involved with restoration planning and action for this magnificent wetland in Discovery Bay Coastal Park in 2012. Hopefully we'll be able to share the...
